PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2012

McNamara in Albany County dismissed a lawsuit filed in June 2011 by three members of Americans For Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group, that challenged New York’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap and trade program. The suit, Thrun v. Cuomo, was brought against New York Governor Andrew M.

2005

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

Since 2008, the Higher Education Climate Consortium of Pittsburgh has played a critical role in bringing the Pittsburgh region’s higher education institutions together around climate action, while also putting intentionality behind advancing campus goals individually and collectively, to take advantage of city-wide scale and opportunity.

2008

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Once all these new rules take effect, how do we actually achieve the emissions reduction goals? to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. would suggest increasing the price of carbon.

Paris Agreement

Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2008 an English jury acquitted six Greenpeace activists claiming the defense after the activists attempted to shut down a prominent nearby coal-fired powerplant. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. 10, 2008), [link]. in some way. alleviate or reduce the risk. reasonable.

2016

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Cannot the past be prologue?

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] could reduce carbon emissions 42 percent and generate 70 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. trillion. [25] 18] Michael Greenstone et al.,

Electricity

Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

Sustainable energy – without the hot air (2008). Crossing the Energy Divide is another gem that lays out three main goals; m assive reduction of greenhouse emissions at negative or very low net cost ; e nergy independence without drilling for oil off the California or Florida coasts; and g reatly improved energy security. .

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. There is broad consensus in this legislature on the subject of aggressively pursuing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Natural Gas

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. crops declined 18% between 1980 and 2008 and is today 80 percent lower than their 1972 peak. [17] crops declined 18% between 1980 and 2008 and is today 80 percent lower than their 1972 peak. [17] and around the world.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E 17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Conservation

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2008, there were 400,000 with over 90% of them in captive herds with a gradual increase in wild herds of both plains and woodland bison. It is also believed that the spread of tree canopy has accelerated the warming already being triggered by carbon emissions (35). Their status today is “Near Threatened”. Bat Conservation.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. The two most recent losses were particularly serious. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S.

Law

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

Greenhouse

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

A 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels: To meet these targets, the EO requires agencies to, among other things, pursue building electrification strategies, procure carbon pollution-free energy, and use performance contracting to reduce emissions.

Greenhouse

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

2020